Guinea-Bissau Votes 'Yes' in Referendum for New Constitution
The yes vote won 70% support, clearing a path for the president to appoint ministers, dismiss the government and dissolve parliament.
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According to provisional results, 70 per cent of the voters in Guinea-Bissau voted in favour of a new Constitution designed to free themselves from the semi-parliamentary system, an election contested by the opposition, which denounces the authoritarian drift of the president of the transition.
Oppositions from Guinea-Bissau boycott a constitutional referendum that increases the powers of the president and reduces Parliament.
The president of the National Election Commission (CNE) of Guinea-Bissau, Judge Carmem Lobo, announced this Tuesday, September 1, that the referendum of Sunday over the entry into force of a new Constitution, with 70% of the votes. In a communication broadcast live in the local media, Carmen Lobo said that of the 914,428 registered voters to vote, 572,714 exercised their civic right and of these 383,117 voted in favour of the new Constitution. T…
teleSUR, Africa in Summary, September 2, 2026. The "Yes" option triumphed with 70% of the votes in the constitutional referendum held last Sunday in Guinea-Bisau, promoted by the military junta in order to strengthen the powers of the head of state in the face of the general elections of the next 6 [...] The Guinessa-Bisáu entry. They approve in referendum new Constitution with greater presidential power was first published in Latin American Sum…
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